Master class: getting rid of a bad mood

Lately, have you often been in a bad mood, and you feel that your irritation is about to flare up with all its force and you will throw it out on the first person you come across, be it your beloved man, co-worker or friend? Indeed, after a series of failures and a protracted black streak in life, many of us find it difficult to restrain huge portions of “unsavory” emotions.

How to learn to cope with a bad mood and irritation that simply “tears” your whole body into pieces? Read on.

Psychotechnics Natalie Rogers

According to English psychologist Natalie Rogers, finding inner balance, relaxing and letting go of negative emotions is quite possible. To do this, you just need to master the simple but very effective psychological technique that she developed.

Using the method of art therapy, psychologist Natalie Rogers managed to survive the breakup with her beloved husband, who left her after many years of marriage. She claims that this psychotechnics was also able to protect many of her clients, both women and men, from depression, who finally managed to free themselves from obsessive despondency and irritation. What is its essence?

Left hand drawing

Sit at the table and put a pencil or felt-tip pen and a blank sheet of paper in front of you. Then, close your eyes and listen carefully to yourself, your emotions, your mood. Now take a pencil or felt-tip pen in your left hand and start drawing anything - abstraction, lines, shapes, that is, the first thing that comes to mind. The main thing is not to think about the quality of your drawing and “let go” of your hand on a free journey across a sheet of paper. While drawing, try to concentrate exclusively on your experiences and on what causes you a bad mood (event or person). Think that all your negativity is moving smoothly but confidently onto paper. Draw until there is no free space left on the paper.

If while drawing you feel that the bad mood has not completely “moved” onto the paper, then take another blank sheet and continue drawing until you feel that you have calmed down and splashed out all the negativity. The paper will definitely “absorb” the accumulated negative emotions. Do not believe? So, use another psychotechnic that will definitely relieve you of oppressive feelings.

Mood words

Take another blank sheet of paper and (without thinking!) write on it all the words that express your current mood. There may be 10-20 words, or maybe 2-3 - it doesn’t matter, as long as they are sincere. When you write all the words that burst out, you will immediately feel an inexplicable lightness and some kind of liberation. That's all - you almost managed it and conquered your irritation and bad mood, which you “gave” to your drawing. All that remains is to finally free ourselves from it. To do this, you need (with pleasure!) to tear both sheets of paper (with the picture and words) and throw them in the trash bin. Well done, you did it!

And now for the good stuff

You were able to get rid of the negative, which means it’s time for the positive! Again, take a blank sheet of paper and pencils or markers (preferably colored). Close your eyes and try to remember with all the details some important and pleasant event in your life. Now choose your favorite color and start drawing all the positive emotions associated with this event or meeting.

Draw abstract lines, shapes or figures also with your left hand until there is no free space left on the paper. Then, on the back of the sheet, write the words that you associate with the pleasant event that you drew. Ready!

And one more thing: don’t forget to hang your positive drawing in a prominent place and look at it for several days. Then the good old truth, which says that good always triumphs over evil, will take a central place in your life. Good luck!

Author: Natalia Borishkevich